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Father-and-son Founders Ronald Tran and Cameron Tran announced the national expansion of Optimal Facility Services (OFS), a commercial cleaning and facility-services company serving clients across the country. It carries the standard the two of them built at their Kalamazoo company, CT Cleaners, far beyond Southwest Michigan.

Cameron Tran started his first business at age 12, mowing lawns throughout Southwest Michigan. His father, Ronald Tran, taught him a lifelong lesson that had nothing to do with grass: Do the work like the people counting on you are family. Years later, that one idea has grown into one of the largest janitorial companies in the area, and now into a national company built on the very same principle.

For Cameron Tran, the reason is simple, and it isn’t about size.

“Success was never about being the biggest. It was about people first, then health, then business, in that order,” says Cameron Tran. “My dad raised our family that way, and we run our companies the same way. When we walk into a building, we’re not thinking about square footage. We’re thinking about the nurse finishing a double, the teacher who gets there before the sun, the small shop that can’t afford to look anything but spotless. We want their day to be a little better because we showed up."

For Ronald Tran, the work is personal. A father of three and a grandfather of two, he has spent his life taking care of the people around him, and he sees every account the same way.

“I raised my kids to believe you leave things better than you found them,” shares Ronald Tran. “That’s really all this is. Every building we take on belongs to somebody. We treat it like it’s ours.”

The Trans built CT Cleaners from nothing in Kalamazoo, growing it into one of the biggest janitorial companies in Southwest Michigan—serving offices, medical buildings, schools, warehouses, and other businesses across Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. Word traveled the way it does in a tight-knit community: One clean building, and one kept promise, at a time.

OFS is the next chapter. For organizations that run buildings in more than one city, keeping them clean usually means juggling an unknown vendor in every market, with no single person accountable when something slips. OFS replaces that with one national partner who answers for the result everywhere, holding the same standard in every location it serves.

“The standard is the point,” Cameron Tran adds. “Better workplaces, better service, better communities. We call it making it better.”

As OFS grows across the country, CT Cleaners continues serving the West Michigan community where the family business began. It’s the same place, the founders say, that taught them how to do any of this in the first place, and the values haven’t changed even as the map has gotten bigger.